You want to measure time, the boundless and immeasurable. Yet timelessness inside yourself is conscious of the timelessness of life.
(Khalil Gibran: The Prophet)

On the threshold of the twenty-first century the Visual Arts have acquired a special position: they are the indicator for the past, present events and future prospects. They are the transmitters between the currents, they translocate visions and give them concrete space.

One of these visions which have become space is realized in the new kinetic and accessible sculpture by Hella De Santarossa. The column is on a base of about one square meter tapering roughly six meters to a top of 60 centimeters. On entering, the visitor experiences a totally new realm of experience.

Everything we have known is left behind and a different and new dimension is directly revealed. Seemingly alone and cut off outside world, the visitor only gradually registers the monitors which have been installed in the floor under his feet, and which connect the visitor with the world via internet. The only possibility of orientation - as it has been since the days of the ancient world - is offered by the four points of the compass, from which digitalised information, a babble of voices and global events come to the visitor via the internet.

The virtual sense is intensified by the surrounding glass walls whose Kaleidoscope-like prisms develop a play of colours in the reflection of the monitors. A view of the future seems possible in the transparency of the glass which as a fragile medium is capable of realizing emotions. This optical and physical leave-taking of reality by means of media which will determine the coming century is like a journey through the universe.

In Trans Luc(e) IV, as the sculpture is named, human dependency - both mental and physical - on light is shown. Light in the glass which is compressed to energy and passion, compels the visitor to define his location, his very being. For Hella De Santarossa this definition of self is also, despite virtuality and modernity, indispensable in the twenty-first century and with her kinetic sculpture she has laid out the aesthetic approaches.